python error codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map) UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters

Question

I am running sparql query to people's name from dbpedia for a give movie After getting data I am displaying name as well as putting into Mysql I am getting normal names but at one pointit threw an error

I got an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "TestSparql.py", line 172, in <module>
    print person_Name
  File "C:\Python27\Lib\encodings\cp437.py", line 12, in encode
    return codecs.charmap_encode(input,errors,encoding_map)
UnicodeEncodeError: 'charmap' codec can't encode characters in position 16-21: character maps to <undefined> 

could some one explain what this error means and why it might have come?

Answer 1

That error means that Python is not able to encode as unicode your strings. Further details at http://wiki.python.org/moin/UnicodeEncodeError

In order to help you, many details are missing:

• SPARQL Python implementation you are using to query DBpedia
• The printing code that produces such error
• Some environment details (you charset configuration and so on)